Movies Like Growing Holes

If you liked Growing Holes (2005), a movie directed by Trevor Smith, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020)
★ 7.3/10
This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways, shafts, and tombs, piecing together the secrets of Egypt’s most significant find in almost 50 years in Saqqara.
2
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
★ 6.2/10
Black Ops specialist Connor Gibson infiltrates a maximum security prison to take down legendary driver Frankenstein in a violent and brutal car race.
3
Sniper: No Nation (2026)
★ 6.8/10
Brandon Beckett and Agent Zero lead a rescue mission in Costa Verde when their friends are taken hostage.
4
Missing in Action (1984)
★ 5.9/10
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring…
5
After.Life (2009)
★ 6.3/10
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
6
Burke & Hare (2010)
★ 6.1/10
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
7
Kandahar (2023)
★ 6.8/10
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding…
8
The Match (2021)
★ 6.1/10
Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win…
9
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
★ 6.8/10
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners…
10
Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
11
I Sell the Dead (2008)
★ 5.9/10
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy. Before long, Arthur spills the…
12
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
★ 6.8/10
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring…
13
Mr. Jones (2019)
★ 6.7/10
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the…
14
Peppermint (2018)
★ 6.7/10
A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.
15
Day of the Dead (1985)
★ 7/10
As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.
16
The Last Castle (2001)
★ 7.2/10
A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
17
The Lost King (2022)
★ 6.5/10
An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
18
Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
19
Hidden Strike (2023)
★ 6.9/10
Two elite soldiers must escort civilians through a gauntlet of gunfire and explosions.
20
The Vanishing (1993)
★ 6.2/10
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.